34.13, Books: Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator: Loison-Charles

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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:09:55
From: Lian Wilson [Lian.Wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator: Loison-Charles

 


Title: Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator 
Subtitle: Writing and Translating between Russian, English and French 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/vladimir-nabokov-as-an-authortranslator-9781350243286/ 


Author: Julie Loison-Charles

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350243293 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350243309 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePub
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350243286 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of
Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the
permanent presence of three cultures and languages: Russian, English and
French. In particular, Julie Loison-Charles focusses on Nabokov's dual nature
as both an author and a translator, and the ways in which translation
permeates his fictional writing from his very first Russian works to his last
novels in English.

Although self-translation has received a lot of attention in Nabokov
criticism, this book considers his work as an author-translator, drawing
particular attention to his often underappreciated and underestimated, but no
less crucial, third language; French. Looking at Nabokov's encounters with
pseudotranslation, Julie Loison-Charles demonstrates the influence this had on
his practice as both a translator and a writer, arguing that this experience
was crucial to his ability to create bridges between the literary traditions
of Europe, Russia and America. The book also triangulates his practice and
theory of translation for "Onegin" with those of Chateaubriand and Venuti to
illuminate Nabokov's transnational vision of literature and his ethics of
translation before presenting a robust case for reconsidering his
collaborative translations in French as mediated self-translations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Translation


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=166613




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